People Starting to Call for the Defunding of CUNY After Hateful Commencement Speech
“The academic establishment is so compromised by this ideological agenda that talk of reform that doesn’t involve sweeping measures that force them to change is meaningless.”
You can watch some clips of the speech here. CUNY should be ashamed, and maybe defunded too.
Jonathan S. Tobin writes at the Jewish News Syndicate:
The answer to campus radicalism and antisemitism? Defunding
It took the City University of New York (CUNY) nearly three weeks to do it, but the public university’s chancellor and board of trustees eventually got around to condemning an antisemitic speech made at the CUNY Law School graduation ceremony on May 12.
The oration was delivered by graduating student Fatima Mousa Mohammed of Queens, N.Y., a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, the activist wing of the antisemitic BDS movement. In it, she uttered egregious lies about Israel and Zionists but anchored her attacks on the Jewish state in far-left talking points about the evils of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism and “white supremacy.” She railed against the police as well as the federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, which served as fundraisers for the Hamas terrorist group. She spoke of the mission of the future lawyers getting their degrees that day as waging an ongoing battle against the rule of law.
Mohammed received a rousing ovation from the graduating students that was reportedly joined in by school officials. But once the video of the 12-minute speech went viral, it generated angry pushback from Jewish organizations and politicians…
The academic establishment is so compromised by this ideological agenda that talk of reform that doesn’t involve sweeping measures that force them to change is meaningless. If schools like CUNY are to change, then their funding must be cut off. That isn’t possible at large private institutions with massive endowments like Ivy League schools supported by left-wing alumni. Private philanthropic foundations are also now so thoroughly woke that those who are dependent on them for donations must bow to their dictates, which now means adopting DEI measures.
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it generated angry pushback from Jewish organizations and politicians
I would hope it generates pushback from alumni and the electorate. I would hope it also generates a tide of not hiring CUNY law graduates. Or any other graduate of CUNY.
“pushback from Jewish organizations and politicians…”
When the Jewish community gets involved, I’ll sit up and take notice.
And those who saw nothing wrong with the speech will say the involvement is proof that the claims of Jewish hyper white privilege and Zionist control are true, and that Jews are weaponizing antisemitism again.
An unfortunately excellent point. Most of the Tribe are content to be in the “never forget” camp. When it’s too late, they might remember that they were supposed to be thinking “never again.”
Big difference.
There needs to be strong pushback from every decent human being, Jewish or not.
CUNY which has become a center of DEI ideology since the advent of open admissions, which destroyed one of the finest public university systems,. clearly has supported the development of a law school where anti Semitism is very prevalent among faculty and students. This woke freak show of a law school which is producing graduate with contempt for the legal system should be defunded now
CUNY has had a mind virus for nearly 100 years!! It needs to be cut out lest the cancer spread to other schools.
The fact that the crowd AND “teachers” applauded means that the cancer is stage 4.
Never hire anyone with CUNY on their resume.
I would never even hire a cafeteria worker if they once worked at this loathsome school!